#governments should be afraid of their people

[tarre-was-right]

@professorscrooge:

Additional Propaganda: Satine has raised (or was some kind of parental role to) a nearly model citizen/future politician who wanted to help people, uphold justice, end corruption etc. From what little we see of him, Satine passed her ideals and drive on to Korkie. Jaster trained/traumatised his adopted son into becoming one of the galaxy's biggest war criminals.

@raspberryzingaaa:

#yeah i dont care im still pro jaster lmfao not sorry #listen you also cant actuallu fully judge what their prowess was bc both had circumstances that were being affected by the sith #satine was only allowed to reign for so long because having a weak mandalore was good for palps #also you cant fully decimate a culture and call it ruling. like not even just the armor but everything alse #and its also very hard to tell what is true based on the cartoons bc were all the mandos blue eyed blonde bc of animation reasons? #bc one of the old mando things was adoption and a broad mix of species. #but yeah we cant really/fully tell bc of the sith influences. but imo i think the guy the sith Really didnt want in power might be best #and i am absolutely not a satine hater. i love her and i repect where shes coming from #but also the rep com books were an influential part of my teenage hood (for better or for worse)

(I did promise to share even the arguments that are based in fanon. Sorry.)

@prankprincess123:

#listen - this is quite possibly an actual political debate that (at least part of) mandalore actually had in canon #cause jaster died just a handful of years before satine came to power and was relevant to the circumstances surrounding such #and in an ideal universe youd have the supercomandos and new-mandalorians finding equal ground #and working together to deal with death watch (who ultimately took down both groups and helped blow up the planet) #but jaster is enough of a mess that he was one of the triggers of the civil war that ultimately put satine in charge #and she took this disaster and turned it into a functional government/culture/system and kept it that way for ~20y #and the only reason it didnt stay functional is because *checks notes* the sith decided they dont like her #like how competent of a ruler must you be for the cult thats been trying to destabilize your rule to turn to evil wizards for help #and how much of a widespread force for good must one be to have an evil wizard cult decide that you specifically need to die #satine should win by a landslide

@ironborealis:

#Mereel's reforms were the stepping stones to Satine's succesful rule #But his vision was too small #Satine and Mereel BOTH struggled with corruption inside their ranks #The way she tears off on a speeder to rescue Kenobi in her first episode? #Satine isn't afraid of a fight #she just wants to prevent unnecessary conflicts #some of y'all don't understand the philosophies of nonviolence at all #Satine can be as ruthless as any other Mando #She will not hesitate to fuck someone up #She literally burned a fucking warehouse full of evidence because she wanted to send a message that corruption was not tolerated

FINALE - You might want to read the propaganda this time. Lots of misinfo in fandom on these two in particular.

Remember, this is NOT about who would win in a fight. This is about who makes the best leader for Mandalore as a whole.

Explanation post

Seeding

Propaganda below the cut! You can submit more on this post and I will reblog it back to here! I was going to keep the text-only bits above the readmore, but we got enough in that it takes up more space than I thought.

Yes, I will even reblog the stuff based on fanon, but I will judge you for it.

SATINE KRYZE

Anon: Satine because she served. Mandalorian fashion week would love her. Manda'slay.

Anon: Satine Propaganda: Was supported by the STRONG MAJORITY, led Mandalore to be in peace for NEARLY 20 YEARS, didn't ban mando'a or armour or any part of the culture like fandom claims, is a good fighter, considered EVERY Mandalorian a Mandalorian and didn't discriminate

@lightsaberwieldingdalek: Satine propaganda: she actually ran a functioning government. Not a mercenary band, or a death cult, or a terrorist extremist organisation, an actual functioning government. Yes there was corruption, corruption she did her best to stop to the point of personally getting in firefights with smugglers, but she took a planet devastated by civil war and by the end of her rule she had schools, public works, and a justice system. - Sure, the rest can run military operations (and we don’t know Satine couldn’t, only that she *won’t*) but can they make the bins get emptied regularly to go to the recycling plants?

@lightsaberwieldingdalek: I understand Jaster has the tacticool appeal, and has the iconic armour, but guys. He did an interpretation of some problematic historical values for the more modern day, led a mercenary band, and under unknown circumstances his group started calling him the historical-cultural title of the ruler of their entire cultural group. I know he’s cool looking, and shoots real good, but at most he’s the equivalent of someone who could be a cult leader but doesn’t want to be. - Meanwhile. Satine. You have issues with her ethical code, and she’s not a cool cause she doesn’t wear the armour. And yet she is the one who *actually ran mandalore*. For 20-ish years, and not only kept it stable but built it up from the ruins of civil war! - Yes yes T-helmet cool and military man competence nice, but that cannot equal taking the ruins of a war torn society and turning it into a mostly peaceful (when terrorism happened it was a big shocking deal, not normalised) urbanised people who eat well, have access to luxury and specialised education (get a offworld Jedi to come lecture) and can ACTUALLY BREATH IN THE ATMOSPHERE RUINED BY ALL THE WARLORDS LIKE JASTER TRYING TO FIGHT THE REPUBLIC TO PROVE THEMSELVES.

Anon: Satine propaganda: she knows what the aftermath of war is like. Jaster knows war from a soldier's perspective, a commander's perspective. But Satine knows it from a noncombatant's perspective. She's seen the aftermath and wreckage it leaves behind. Rebuilding after a war takes far longer and likely costs more than the war itself. I don't think Jaster cares about what happens after the battle. But Satine most certainly does.

@archangelsunited: Efficient and long lasting leader of her faction for years, was able to navigate neutrality with the Republic during the Clone Wars. Excellent Hair pieces.

@publiusmaximum: She allowed her society to experience it's first moment of peace and prosperity in a thousand years. - After she was killed, her society was taken over by fascists and gangsters. In short order Mandalore was razed, made uninhabitable, and her people scattered. - Satine was right about everything.

JASTER MEREEL

Anon: Jaster is the one who should rule Mandalore and all Mandalorians, although he started small he searched to make a new code of conduct for Mandalorian bounty hunters, he tries to keep the culture intact yet keep Mandalore progressive and not stuck in the past and from killing each other.

@spacetime1969: He literally rewrote what it means to be Mandalorian, and he created an entire movement around said philosophy that had a good chance of becoming the controlling party of Mandalore if he hadn't been assassinated. What more do you want?

Anon: Jaster for the win, he's the most recent one who actually knows some shit (as much as I love Din Djarin this poor man doesn't know ANYTHING), besides Jango and Boba but they're both very unstable individuals.

@nerdpickle: Jaster, his philosophy perfectly balanced tradition and reform, keeping the best of both worlds, he was also one of the few people chosen by the people

Mereel is a strong and powerful leader. He defeated the traiter Tor Viszla in battle and even took in a poor, orphaned Concordian child after the battle. No more will Mandalore be forced to consider such petty ideals as peace in order to avoid outright war. Instead, we shall be known throughout the galaxy as the greatest mercenaries the galaxy has ever known. Under his rule, we shall triumph over the foolish savages of planets unconquered and be paid handsomely for it!

Anon: Mereel is a strong and powerful leader. He defeated the traiter Tor Viszla in battle and even took in a poor, orphaned Concordian child after the battle. No more will Mandalore be forced to consider such petty ideals as peace in order to avoid outright war. Instead, we shall be known throughout the galaxy as the greatest mercenaries the galaxy has ever known. Under his rule, we shall triumph over the foolish savages of planets unconquered and be paid handsomely for it!

@archangelsunited: Had a structured document for Mandalorian Culture in the modern (tm) day. He fought with the warriors he sent out and took personal interest in the results of his actions (Jango Fett mentorship). Pissed off Tor Vizla.

@nerdpickle: Satine’s Mandalore was like Switzerland, except without the well trained military, incredibly advantageous terrain, high gun ownership and giant nuclear armed alliance providing a free buffer zone on all sides.

SATINE

@bosooka: Originally here

i wrote way too much for my original draft of this (and it turned into a "fuck jaster mereel" party) so here's an abbreviated version

Why Satine is a Better Ruler Than Jaster in 2 Simple Points

Point #1: Satine actually maintained order on Mandalore for decades

This one is simple. Mereel became Mandalore in ~60BBY and Tor Vizsla tried to overthrow him a mere two years later (and nearly succeeded). He was only in power for six more years before he was betrayed by the very same violent people he allowed to remain by his side because of his belief that a Mandalorian warrior was "merely a highly-paid soldier".

Contrast Satine: ruled from approx. 42BBY until 19BBY, a reign of 23-odd years. For twenty-odd years of her reign New Mandalore was completely peaceful and there were no challengers to her authority among the people or elsewhere. Death Watch only became an issue again when they received Separatist (and ultimately Sith) backing, and Dooku discarded them for being useless. Had Death Watch not allied itself with Maul's Shadow Collective I don't think she would have been overthrown at all.

Point #2: Satine kept Mandalore out of places it didn't belong

As we've established, Mereel had no issues with Mandalorians being mercenaries, used however their clients saw fit. I won't go into the weeds of the ethical implications of mercenaries and why they are illegal under international law on Earth, but in short: letting anyone pay one to kill others is the easiest way to become the cudgel of a fascist. Coincidentally exactly what the Fett clones become when Sidious uses them to exterminate the Jedi. Mereel's "reforms" of the Mandalorian ways did not prevent his troops from getting into a fight they couldn't win against the Jedi on Galidraan (and yes, the Mandalorians shot first:

not that anyone in the fandom remembers this...) after they but an insurrection down on behalf of the corrupt governor of the planet. To be clear, the True Mandos knew that the governor of Galidraan was corrupt and most likely harboring Tor Vizsla, but they still agreed to kill "insurrectionists" for money. Their problems came when Death Watch arranged to make it look like they had also killed women and children. Truly a war between saints and monsters.

Meanwhile Satine: the head of the Council of Neutral Systems, she refused to take sides in a war pushed by the greedy and violent. Yes, she was briefly protected by clones when it comes to light that Death Watch is aligned with the Separatists, but it was immediately followed by the Republic attempting to militarily occupy Mandalore and Satine risking life and limb to keep her people autonomous. Satine refused to become a useful idiot for warmongers, even knowing that it would have been economically advantageous for her to do so. Unlike Jaster Mereel, she has ideals that she values more than credits. He would have accepted an offer from the highest bidder and turned Mandalore into a machine of war for the Sith, just like his Crusader ancestors once did.

Tl;Dr

Satine was actually respected as an authority on Mandalore for literal decades and was only challenged by a miniscule faction of terrorists who had to get foreigners to interfere in their political processes (FML) in order to actually take power from her

Satine kept Mandalore out of conflicts it did not belong in, which largely protected it from military occupation and destruction until the year she died; Mereel made a career out of interfering in the affairs of other planets if they were paid to do so

Unlike Mereel and his successor, Satine had morals to motivate her decisions that were not the pursuit of cold hard cash, including the protection of Mandalorian independence and neutrality

[anne-of-crows]

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

D34TH TO TRUMP 🔥✊️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." - V (V For Vendetta)

[vintageseawitch]

something that hits especially hard whenever i remember it: "Street Fighting Man" by the Rolling Stones playing during the "V for Vendetta" movie credits~

[mortiferumsomnum]

She is a Ghost; He Stalked Batman. What More Can I Say?

Masterlist

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Tim Drake lived in the city with his parents before they moved into the manor, and it's how he was able to take pictures of Batman and Robin.

In Dani's travels across the world, the moment she stumbles into Gotham, she becomes friends with Tim Drake, who was sad that it was his last night in the city. His parents have become richer with their new business endeavors, and now they're moving to Bristol, becoming neighbors with Playboy Billionaire Philanthropist Bruce Wayne.

Dani decided to make this kid's last night of picture taking a night to remember, carrying him to so many angles he could take pictures of the Dynamic Duo. Tim also capturing with his camera Dani beating up some bad guys herself.

“Not bad, Ghost Girl,” said Tim, showing Dani some pictures he took of her.

Dani playfully smacked his arm. “Thanks, Stalker Boy.”

Once the night is over, Tim expresses that it's the best night ever, and they say their goodbyes, with Tim saying that Dani is a pretty good hero, too.

It’s years later when they meet again, when Phantom became an active member of the Justice League, and months later decides to introduce his clone to Superman in hopes of getting him to accept Superboy.

Tim didn’t recognize Dani, since she was in her Dani Phantom form. And Dani didn’t recognize Tim, since he was dressed as Robin. 

But, she did recognize Robin being Batman’s partner. And, although she knows that this isn’t the same Robin from when she visited Gotham all those years ago, she’s just gotta ask, “You ever notice some kid following you around and taking pictures of you and the Bat fighting crime at night?”

Dani imagines Robin blinking his eyes behind his domino mask. But then, he gasped, and pointed a finger towards her. And Dani, on instinct pointed back.

“GHOST GIRL!?”

Dani gasped. There’s only one kid who called her that. And it was, “STALKER BOY?!”

So many questions were bombarded towards the two, Batman being exasperated and tired, and Danny being amused and happy that Dani has a friend from her travels.

[foxlecter]

Going to be selling some V for Vendetta tote bags soon 🫣

[godihatethiswebsite]

[glugglugs]

I think more zionists should be pushed into canals, actually.

[nando161mando]

Government should be afraid of their people.

[glassrunner]

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[reinelefey]

This is the issue I have with Tumblr and the "mobility" of any actual movement here.

Part of me hates being the person who writes what comes next, as I know the backlash that will come with it. Please read this, and sit with it, and think about it.

Before we begin: I am chronically ill. I have the lovely h-EDS, AuAdhd, POTS, and MCAS combo. I am a FREQUENT patient at hospitals, and have had 13 pulmonary embolisms as of this writing. (Blood clots blocking off portions of my lungs, and also quite likely to kill you.) I am one of the patients you speak of. I am the one with crumbling teeth who still must eat while I pull shards of bone from the mouth with needlenose pliers because dental care costs money I don't have, if I want to have somewhere to live, and something for my family to eat. I do not have access to pain meds on demand, nor doctors, because I do not have insurance that can pay for it, because despite being chronically ill, the government decided to remove my coverage with ZERO warning about doing so leaving me with my last hospital bill of 45k to pay OUT OF POCKET. I work, and struggle to survive because I "do not qualify" for aid from the government. I desired an idealogical revolution. I hoped if we could just SHOW them how much we need what they deny us, we could make our government care. But we can't. They don't. We don't have the money the corporations have. The truth is, the people no longer lead their government, as we are meant to do. The corporations do, and they do not care for people.

You see, the issue here is that the OP has a point. You cannot tell someone your life is worth more than theirs because no one's life is more valuable than another. That's not how it works.

But a further issue is that though the OP has a point, as do you.... It is also a non point.

The revolutionaries will not have guns aimed at your hospitals, will not cut the power to them. Because we fight for those in the hospitals, we fight for those to sick to fight for themselves, too weak, too scared. That's the thing.

Right now, we have TRIED peace. We have TRIED protests, we have TRIED voting. But in a system where the oppression is BUILT INTO the system, the only way that we can change things is to change the system. The government does not want to allow that because this current system benefits them so much.

This IS going to come down to a fight. I'm sorry, but at this point it is an inevitability, if we actually intend to progress to a point where we are able to sustain this country.

So the point now is to figure out how this CAN be done with the lowest number of casualties. You see, I don't think my life means more than any other life. But I do think that the life and security of the whole is greater than the one.

People are dying in the streets. People are dying in hospitals. People are Dying because the government is not allocating enough funds to healthcare.

We do not fight because we want your patients to die. I myself am chronically ill, and am unfortunately a frequent flyer at my local hospital because of it. Without the blood thinners I take daily, my lungs would fill with clots and I would slowly suffocate to death while my lungs die piece by piece inside of my body.

I am fighting because I want for me, for your patients, and for those dying in the streets of treatable illnesses, a fucking life. A CHANCE to live. To SEE what this world has to offer without the fetters we have been placed in.

Yes. People will die. I will likely die if it comes down to fighting. Many others will die. Innocent people will die.

My life is not worth more than theirs. But the freedom of the whole is worth the risk to my life, to their lives, to all of our "lives". Because we do not have lives currently. What we have is survival. And I guarantee that any chronically ill person will tell you that there is a difference between survival and living.

Of course you don't want your innocent patients to die. Neither do we. But we cannot- CANNOT- put survival above the freedom to live.

The truth is, no one wants this to go violently. Not those who genuinely want to make things better. We would prefer peace. But peace is not changing things anymore. Peace has been making them worse.

It's time we change the power balance in this country, and remind the government who they are meant to represent. Despite their beliefs, we do not belong to them. They belong to us. Unfortunately that might mean violence.

How much violence depends on them. So, no, my life, my freedom, my needs are not above the needs of a single other human. But the needs of our country as a whole are above all. A single life cannot be held comparable to 330 some odd million. 100 lives cannot be held comparable.

I understand the horror of losing patients, I understand the trauma of losing people you /know/- people you /care/ about. But every single day someone out there is going through that loss with someone they /love/, someone they /birthed/, someone they now get to bury because a representative of the government "thought" a 12 yr old boy had a "real gun", instead of a water pistol. Someone they get to bury Because the police bust into her home in the middle of the night, and shoot her. Someone to bury because someone couldn't listen when he said he couldn't breathe.

There are homeless men and women starving, and dying of preventable, treatable illnesses on our streets. There are disabled people ROTTING in their beds because they can't afford the care that would make their lives livable.

The truth is, your patients are already dying- some before they have a chance to be your patients. You want to save them, and of course you do, it is human nature. But posts like this that would try to create guilt over what is to come are not helpful. They are not informative. And all they serve to do is put more burden on people who are already carrying those burdens with them.

Those of us who have seriously taken the time to try and figure this out, to try and come up with something, ANYTHING Else to change what is coming, what must come, are not your enemies. The corporations who tell you you can't treat someone because they can't pay are the enemies. The government who tells you you cannot remove a fetus from a woman's body to save her life are the enemies.

We do not fight you. We do not fight your patients. But we will not carry the guilt of their deaths. It will be the government that attacks infrastructure like this because they will not want hospitals and medical available to treat thos who fight them. Their deaths will be on the heads of those that already bear such guilt with pride.

I know this is anathema to you, and it would be anathema to anyone who fights on a daily basis to save lives - as it should be. But unfortunately... Sometimes saving lives comes at the cost of lives.

We need to keep thos casualties in mind, and do every single thing that we can to decrease those casualties, but we cannot let the guilt of their deaths stop the motion of change. I'm sorry, but we cannot.

I am sure this will anger you, and I am sure that it will anger others. And you and they SHOULD be angry. It should have never gotten to this point. It should have never come to a place where the government ceases to weigh the cost of human lives in their policies. It should never have come to a place where the corporations and their supply of over inflated American Currency have better handle on American Lawmakers than the American People do.

But the fact is that we are at that point.

People will die. But what is important is making sure that those deaths, that terrible cost is not paid in vain.

We said Never Again after 1945. But we are ignoring the signs now, before it is too late to stop it. What will we say in 2045 once the dust clears, If Never Again didn't mean Never Again? How will we explain to our children that we SAW the fascism coming, and CHOSE not to stop it because some people may have died?

No. I will not be the one to explain that to my children. No matter the outcome, I will fight this. I will protect the future of our world, I will do my damnedest to make sure that I leave this place a better world than when I got here.

And if that means there will be blood on my hands, that is the cost I will pay for my children to live, instead of just surviving.

I think a lot about how, if the glorious violent revolution happens, every kid with significant medical needs in a hospital where power gets cut will die.

You can decide you're willing to sacrifice your own life, but you don't get to tell everybody else on the planet that they're acceptable collateral damage.

[baekuras]

wow

okay so a company i applied to IS interested in meeting me....for the usual assessment test stuff

now usually that is done online however

they emailed me that they want to meet me/others presumably to do the test IN PERSON at 9:30am...............in a city that's 3 hours away 3 hours once public transport starts so i couldn't even BE there at 9:30 if I wanted to bc nothing drives which would mean i'd have to stay overnight which is like 100-130€s for smth that's basically an online test which means i am likely to fail at the math portion if anything

i am not spending 100-200€'s for a "maybe" no, none of the possible travel costs would be reimbursed

it may be a city job but damn i don't have the energy for that

nevermind that it's my last vacation day and if i didn't have vacation it'd be impossible

[first-boy-to-cry]

How do i tell someone i really want to hurt people without immediately being detained and locked in the bin

[thebreakfastgenie]

It is extremely disturbing how many posts I see claiming that Roe v. Wade was overturned on Biden's watch and blaming him and the Democratic Party for it. It's disturbing on a number of levels.

First, it was Trump and Bush-appointed justices who handed down the Dobbs decision. This is a flagrant example of blaming Democrats for things Republicans did, and not coincidentally is one of the the most widely felt differences between the two parties. As a result, it's usually the first example Democrats and their allies point to; this misappropriation suggests a deliberate attempt to undercut that fact.

Secondly, and related to the first point, it obfuscates who the real enemy is, and I am comfortable using word "enemy" to describe the Republican Party because of the policies they advocate and enact. The truth is that states controlled by the Republican Party were where the effects of Dobbs are most severely felt, while states controlled by the Democratic Party are passing laws to protect abortion. It is important to know which party opposes abortion and which party supports it. If the Republicans gain control of the House, Senate, and White House, they will pass a national abortion ban, as they have done at the state level in several places.

Thirdly, blaming Biden for Dobbs demonstrates a very concerning lack of understanding of how the government functions. The judiciary is its own branch of government; judges are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. It doesn't matter who is president when a decision is handed down, it matters who was president when the justices were appointed. People sometimes react to this by moving the goalposts and claiming the real issue was a failure by Democrats to "codify" Roe v. Wade. I am not sure what "codify" means in this context, and I'm not sure they are either. One thing it does not mean is that congress can pass a law saying "abortion is legal forever." Republicans could easily repeal such a law and it the federal government cannot necessarily prevent states from restricting abortion at the state level. Roe v. Wade was a ruling stating that the constitution guaranteed a right to privacy, which included the right to have an abortion. This prevented abortion restrictions in a way federal law cannot. That doesn't mean passing federal law protecting abortion is a bad idea, but it isn't a foolproof protection. It's fair to argue that the Democratic Party and the left of center generally were complacent about abortion. The form of this complacency was not taking the courts seriously, while the right spent fifty years openly filling the courts with anti-abortion judges.

The last thing that worries me is that this is popping up phrased almost the exact same way all over the place. I am afraid that it is not merely incompetence, but intentional misinformation, that is then repeated by the incompetent who believe it.

I know some will probably dismiss this post as being from a "vote harder" liberal Biden supporter, but whatever your feelings about Biden, the Democratic Party, or the democratic process in the U.S., you should care about the truth. The truth is that Roe v. Wade was overturned by Republican-appointed judges and abortion bans are being enacted by Republican elected officials, and Joe Biden opposes these things. You can do with that information whatever you wish, but you denying it is dishonest.

[foxlecter]

Obsessed with the way this turned out

[death-of-a-ladies-man]

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